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at the time he was probably thinking about how much time it would _save_ him

I felt it in my bones that Trump would see a way to agree to a 2 week extension


> It isn't like they have no experience with the concept and those drones are far more capable than anything Iran has.

Unless Iran bought some CM-302 missiles from China, the mere threat of which appears to mean that China and Iran now control the oil in the gulf.

But ELI5 me maybe I don't understand realpolitik


Which country do you think got basic healthcare funding right ?


Relative to what, the US? I'd say the thirty wealthiest countries on the planet... except us.


How do you define wealthiest countries?

Picking from top GDP per capita, I'm not sure that UAE or Qatar are countries to look up to.


You only asked about healthcare.


At least they have a better healthcare system


Norway


Since we are talking about the cold war: USSR.

They had pretty good results post WW2. The problem is that they ended up lagging behind the western bloc because of a lack of resources and innovation. Basic healthcare doesn't mean much if you don't have good treatment in the first place. It is a common problem with communist countries, they usually have good access to healthcare, but they don't have the resources to give proper treatment.


China


I have the opposite problem. I have a genius idea, and I start to research it.

I find a company that actually built a solid product, dangit this is really good. They appear to have executed well, but they failed, or went nowhere, heck the app is still out there. Maybe they are even chugging along but its a smaller business even with a better product than I would have been able to build. Had I been a founder of the product, I would be questioning staying.

Then I also find sometimes I was doing it all wrong and the world has moved past my notions of products. I think there's a market opportunity because I don't realize that the rest of the world is already cool using a $15 plant hygrometer bluetooth device which can also keep track of your medicine or food in your cooler, my notion of the value of something is skewed by western costs


Except in the oceans, and near the oceans


Apolitical guillotines ftw


I guess the Bonne Maman chocolate hazelnut spread trade is over then. Cats outta the bag.


This article uses a lot of numbers to make not very strong arguments.

Lets assume that as a media planner, you have the bag of money under your desk to plausibly be discussing buying a Superbowl spot. You are already spending millions of dollars on media every month, the question is - will the Superbowl spot yield more than other channels ?

For some small set of advertisers in this decision matrix, there's also the question of whether the media production cost is worth it (hello coinbase). For the vast majority of decision makers in this position, the media production budget is already getting spent.

Lets say the spot plus extra cost is $10m to use a nice round number.

You have an expectation of how many new users or website visitors your media budget typically delivers for $10m, because you spend that regularly (monthly, quarterly, it doesn't matter, but the point is that your spend has been growing).

So the decision is really really simple. Superbowl or the other places you've been shoving $10m. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but usually its like eh compared to the other places you've been shoving your $10m, underwhelming. Which is why you see justification pieces like this.


As someone who is somewhat familiar with marketing but no expert, I always wondered how well attribution works.

It seems all guesswork to me. User journeys and decisions are not well enough understood to say, "If I spend $1 here, it’ll return $x".

Of course, marketing people come up with all kinds of calculations to show it’s possible.

That or I’m completely ignorant.


> User journeys and decisions are not well enough understood to say

The power of math is its understanding of you, not your understanding of it.


>> This article uses a lot of numbers to make not very strong arguments.

That's how marketing works.


Sorry it's just f'ing bizarre we're talking about throwing TENS of millions for "advertising" instead of shit that actually benefits people and the world.

Meanwhile some people complain about space programs etc. wasting money.


I don’t care about use of money that others spend freely. I do care about use of money that is forcibly confiscated from me.

(Not taking a position on space programs. Tax-funded programs deserve more inspection than privately-funded programs.)


At least it's not Facebook or other online monster. When I read the piece I thought if it wasn't for superbowl that money would have went straight in the garbage.


I think this is true if you evaluate it purely as a performance channel, but I suspect most Super Bowl buys aren't competing with search/social on the same axis


Ah yes. The mythical brand value.

Let me give you the counterpoint that is increasingly hard to ignore :

You can reach the same users on search and social that the Superbowl will give you and if you can convert them more efficiently, where should your $10m go ?

The newfangled wisdom is that customers are at least as effective branding as the Superbowl


I've been to the Pantheon and I've been to Saqsaywaman (Inca)

The pantheon is amazing and I can see how humans built it

Saqsaywaman is amazing and I have no idea how the hell it was done, even with today's machinery you don't see stones joined like that


There is an article that was posted recently https://www.earthasweknowit.com/pages/inca_construction (HN discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46342950 | 172 points | 55 days ago | 46 comments) The most important bit is in the middle https://www.earthasweknowit.com/photo/peru_cusco_masonry_con... The stones were concave, so the match perfectly only outside and have some kind of mortar inside the wall.


> I have no idea how the hell it was done, even with today's machinery you don't see stones joined like that

Skilled tradesmen with lots of time. It’s impressive, but it’s nothing magical.


I think it was Teller who said the secret to a good magic trick was to put in so much effort that no reasonable person would assume that’s what you’d done.


If you wanted to join a bunch of stones so well that there were no seams, using manual labor, would you pick shapes like these to confuse the hell out of future humans who would wonder how you did it with manual labor ?

https://www.earthasweknowit.com/photo/peru_cusco_hatunrumiyo...

Because if its all just a giant magic trick to amaze us future humans, it worked.


Humans have been artists and show offs as long as we’ve been human. I don’t know if the craftsman who cut that thought people a millennium later would still be impressed by it, but I’m sure they’d be happy as hell that we are.


Check it out for yourself. Its magical


Joining stones in that way is very common in highway construction

Sure it was much more expensive back then to find matching stones than now with laser measuring and computer predication

But it's basically the same process


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